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Anjou Bible Facsimile Edition

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The Anjou Bible is a glorious monument of Neapolitan painting, displaying its characteristic stylistic mélange of French illumination and new trends in Tuscan art. It was created around 1340 at the court of Robert, King of Naples, perhaps intended as a gift from the king to his niece and heir to the throne, Joanna I, Queen of Naples. It opens with a pair of imposing full-page frontispieces celebrating Robert and his family (fols. 3v-4r). More than 140 historiated initials, the most important painted by Cristoforo Orimini, embellish the Christian Vulgate Bible's text.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Anjou Bible": La Bibbia d'Angiò facsimile edition, published by Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana - Treccani, 2022

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Manuscript book description compiled by Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.
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La Bibbia d'Angiò

Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana - Treccani, 2022

  • Commentary (Italian) by Watteeuw, Lieve; Mazzucchi, Andrea
  • Limited Edition: 299 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Anjou Bible: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

Facsimile and commentary volume issued in a box.

Binding

Leather binding with gold tooling.

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